How to Use aluminum oxide in a Sentence

aluminum oxide

noun

• Its double-footed stainless steel guides have aluminum oxide inserts, which stand up to heavy line and lengthen casts.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• From there, copper wires are linked to the sheet, which is then covered by aluminum oxide.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• And second, aluminum oxide could damage and even rip a new hole in the ozone layer.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2021
• The anodization is achieved by building up the aluminum oxide on the surface in layers.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 20 May 2021
• The Nevada Highway Patrol says nine flat cars, two tankers and three box cars derailed, and a plume of white aluminum oxide was released.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
• In my opinion, the workhorse abrasive is aluminum oxide.
  — Tim Carter, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The handle is full-size cork and the six single-foot guides are stainless steel with aluminum oxide ceramic inserts.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
• Most new car batteries are rechargeable and use lithium in some form for one of the electrodes, cobalt or carbon for the other, and aluminum oxide for the electrolyte.
  — Tom Parrett, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2014
• Alcoa reported a 57% increase in the price of aluminum oxide sold the quarter as a result of the supply disruptions throughout the world.
  — Bob Tita, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• So, the bottom surface of the graphene sheet was on silicon dioxide, and the top was covered by aluminum oxide, both of which are insulators.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2022
• The simplest part was forming the gates of the transistors, which were simply patterned on a solid substrate and then coated with aluminum oxide.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• The oxygen gets released in molecular form (O2) at the anode thanks to an aluminum oxide catalyst.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
• Current sachets use a few layers of plastic for strength and one of aluminum oxide, to provide a barrier against the liquid oozing out.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2020
• There are also aluminum oxide crystals to gently polish the skin’s surface.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
• The aluminum oxide left over in the process can be recycled indefinitely, Koehler said, even re-smelted down to be used again in new canisters.
  — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
• The material is made from tubes of aluminum oxide powder injected at a pressure of nearly 2,000 bars.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2022
• The face mask also has physical exfoliants — aluminum oxide crystals — that further assist in the removal of dry skin build-up for a brighter and softer skin surface.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
• That sheet was then lifted off and transferred on top of the aluminum oxide, resulting in an atomically thin layer of semiconductor sitting on top of the gate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
• Fritts says its narrow stainless steel line guides, which have aluminum oxide inserts, extend casting distance.
  — Pete M. Anderson, Field & Stream, 21 June 2023
• As Sara Fecht points out in Popular Science, the simulant contains about three times more aluminum oxide, and six times more titanium oxide, than the real thing.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 1 May 2017
• Russia needs alumina, also known as aluminum oxide, to make aluminum.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 5 May 2022
• The interior of the tunnel was surrounded by plates made of silicone rubber and aluminum oxide powder.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Jan. 2017
• To create an ultra-stiff, yet ridiculously lightweight sheet, the team sandwiched layers of aluminum oxide film together.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2020
• When combined, the water molecules fall apart, the oxygen atoms attaching to the aluminum to create aluminum oxide and the hydrogen atoms breaking off to create energy.
  — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
• That’s because the insulating aluminum oxide layer can have defects that trap charges and degrade performance.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2023
• Export volumes of aluminum oxide, which is used to make the metal aluminum, an important material in weapons production and aerospace, are 400 times higher than last year.
  — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 15 July 2022
• Henry also likes this physical scrub, which uses tiny aluminum oxide crystals to buff the outer layer of the skin and lactic acid to get a thorough chemical exfoliation at the same time.
  — Rebecca Deczynski, Health.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The structure alternates repeating layers of molybdenum disulfide and aluminum oxide placed on top of a light-reflecting gold layer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2023
• Engineers stalled silicene’s degradation by sealing it between a silver base and an aluminum oxide layer.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2015
• The graphene sheets are deposited on a silicon wafer, and then gold electrodes are printed on the sheets, followed by a nanometer-thick insulating layer of aluminum oxide to separate the gate electrode from the semiconducting channel.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024